Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Works great with a leftover ham bone after the holidays! See cooking tips below the recipe for more info. Heat a large skillet over medium heat.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta using 23 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta:
- Prepare 1 bag dried hurst 15 bean soup mix with seasoning packet
- Make ready Optional 👇
- Get 1 tsp. baking soda plus enough water to soak beans overnight
- Get 2 cups diced ham or 2 to 3 ham hocks
- Make ready 1 small yellow onion diced
- Get 2 carrots peeled and diced
- Take 2 stalks celery peeled and diced
- Get 1 Tbsp. garlic minced
- Make ready 1/4 cup butter
- Prepare 2 tsp. dried basil
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- Get 1 tsp. dried thyme
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Take 4 cups water
- Get 4 cups low sodium chicken broth
- Get 1 (14.5 oz) can Italian flavored diced tomatoes or use petite >
- Take tomatoes with 1 tsp. Italian seasonings mixed in
- Make ready 1 tsp. salt
- Get 3 cups chopped kale
- Take 1/2 lemon juiced
- Get 2 tsp. hot sauce
- Take (Optional)1 1/2 cups ditalina pasta
- Take Shredded Parmesan cheese
Add the ham hock, beans, celery onion, bay leaves, garlic, thyme, chicken broth, salt, and pepper to the slow cooker. The slow, even heat is ideal, especially for larger dried beans, and it cooks canned bean combinations to perfection. Plus, you can take the slow cooker with your bean dish along to a party or potluck and plug it in for serving. If your water is a bit hard or you have trouble with dry beans softening in the slow cooker, try adding some baking.
Instructions to make Slow cooker 15 bean & ham soup with or without pasta:
- Place the beans in a colander and sort out any debris, rinse beans and either add to slow cooker or to a pot and cover with water and add 1 teaspoon baking soda and let it sit overnight it's optional but i prefer it.
- If you soaked the beans give them a quick rinse and add to slow cooker
- Add in ham, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, butter, basil, thyme, pepper, bay leaf, broth and water
- Cover slow cooker and don't open lid while cooking. Set on high for 8 hours
- After 8 hours remove bay leaf and shred ham hocks if used and discard bone and add in tomatoes, hot sauce, kale, salt, lemon juice and pasta if adding. Stir up and cover and cook for 20 more minutes and then stir in flavor packet that was in with the beans. Serve and top with some Parmesan cheese if desired. It's also great with buttered cornbread on the side. Enjoy !
One of the best ways to guarantee perfectly cooked beans — ones that emerge creamy and tender instead of crunchy or mushy — is cooking them ever so gently over low, steady heat. Hmm … low and steady heat, you say? Sounds to me like a job for the slow cooker. Full of spice and flavor, great topped with cheese and chips on the side. We love the classic ham version and also my buffalo chicken version.
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